Research Catalog

Title

The flight of the amokura : oceanic languages and formal education in the South Pacific / Richard A. Benton.

Author

Benton, Richard Anthony.

Publication

Wellington : New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1981.

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Additional Authors

New Zealand Council for Educational Research.

Description

xii, 236 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Educational research series, 0110-9294 ; no.63

Uniform Title

Educational research series ; no.63.

Subject

• Language and education > Oceania
• Oceania > Languages
• Oceanic languages > Social aspects

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [219]-232.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The world of the Amokura (Schooling & bilingual education ; Language & national consciousness ; Local languages & national development ; Purposes & means) -- New Zealand: Language, ethnicity & national identity (Proficiency in English ; Maori values & the value of Maori ; Te Matauranga o te Pakeha ; Linguistic priorities ; Sentimental memories & conscious affectations) -- The Maori language (Native-speakers ; A shift to English ; Turning back the tide ; Divisions of labour ; Maori language in the public domain ; Ideology & behaviour) -- The teaching of Maori (Finding a literature ; Maori & education ; Committees, councils & commissions ; A favoured language ; Implementing a policy ; Spectacular growth ; Obstacles & attitudes ; Training native-speakers -- Providing resources ; Language or attitudes? ; Shattering illusions ; The other language of New Zealanders)
• Bilingual education in English & Maori (Maintaining bilingualism, 1835-75 ; Creating bilingualism, 1970-80 ; issues & implications) -- Pacific Island languages in New Zealand (Maintenance of Oceanic languages in New Zealand ; A special status for Polynesian languages? ; An educational issue with a political dimension ; Questions of policy ; The journey's end) -- A postscript on identity (Being Maori ; Identifying a Pakeha ; Cultural slogans ; In unitate dissolutio?) -- Northern Polynesia: The two Samoas (Western Samoa ; The importance of English ; The strength of Samoan ; Literacy & literature ; American Samoa ; The most important course ; Cognitive development ; Similarities & differences) -- Kingdoms, States & dependencies (Tonga ; Tuvalu ; Wallis & Futuna ; The Cook Islands (Reading & writing English ; Independence & the value of Maori ; A bilingual future ; Niue ; Tokelau ; French Polynesia ;
• Hawaii (The status of Hawaiian ; Other Oceanic languages ; Bilingual education) ; Easter Island -- The Western Pacific: Fiji -- Micronesia (Guam ; Trust Territory of the Pacific Island ; Linguistic deversity ; Language policy, 1914-51 ; Trends & counter-trends ; Push for English ; Resurgence of the vernaculars ; Ultimate aims ; Kiribati ; Nauru) -- Melanesia (Solomon Islands ; Vanuatu ; New Caledonia ; Papua New Guinea ; Offical languages ; Language in the classroom) -- The educational potential of Oceanic languages -- The 1974 Bilingual Education Conference (National goals ; Multilingual communities ; Bilingual & bicultural education ; Needs of primary education ; Secondary education ; Reference materials ; Teaching materials ; Teacher training ; Parent & community participation ; Recommendations of the conference ; General policy considerations ; Cultural considerations ; Community imvolvement ; Obligations of the metropolitan powers)
• Policies & possibilities (A typology of language policies ; Oceanic experience ; New Zealand ; New Zealand's associated states ; Tonga & Western Samoa ; Multilingual countries ; Oceanic languages in the school, superstars or dropouts? ; Languages under threat ; The value of indigenous languages ; The role of the school ; Practicalities, rights & reservations ; Stemming the tide) -- Bilingual education : plume or amokura? (Expedient, aphrodisiac or panacea? ; Perceiving & intellectualizing ; Bicultural romanticism ; Criteria for planning & evaluation ; Linguistic ; Psychological ; Sociological ; Political ; Economic ; Religious & cultural ; Educational ; Reporting plans & developments ; Will bilingual education really work? ; Predicting success & failure ; Reviving the Maori language ; Bilingual or bicultural? ; The razor's edge ; He Kupu Whakamutunga)

ISBN

0908567200

LCCN

^^^82116117^

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Harvard Library